Andy Gell
@andygell.bsky.social
#Yorkshire #birdwatching (especially raptors) and occasional #phonescoping with Opticron.
Art,Space and other stuff.
Proud Manxman 🇮🇲 living in God's own county.
Former RAF & airline pilot.
Location:
https://w3w.co/beyond.gigabytes.mayhem
“flown 1.5 million miles – all by a bird that weighs the same as three large bananas. Several Manx Shearwaters ringed on Bardsey have lived more than 40 years after ringing, with the oldest still alive after almost 51 years!” Manxies 💪🇮🇲
www.birdnotes.wales/blog/travell...
www.birdnotes.wales/blog/travell...
Travelling Shearwaters never cease to impress
While we shiver in shorter days, Manx Shearwaters that left their nest burrows on Ynys Enlli/Bardsey just 10 weeks ago are rafting off the South American coast. The Bird Observatory reports one...
www.birdnotes.wales
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“flown 1.5 million miles – all by a bird that weighs the same as three large bananas. Several Manx Shearwaters ringed on Bardsey have lived more than 40 years after ringing, with the oldest still alive after almost 51 years!” Manxies 💪🇮🇲
www.birdnotes.wales/blog/travell...
www.birdnotes.wales/blog/travell...
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I just love painting bird of prey. Their power, intensity and sleek beauty are too hard to resist. Here are some watercolor paintings of a few species I made, the goshawk, the gyrfalcon and the peregrine falcon.
Watercolor and colored pencil
21 x 30 cm
#birdart #sciart #birdpainting #wildlifeart
Watercolor and colored pencil
21 x 30 cm
#birdart #sciart #birdpainting #wildlifeart
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I just love painting bird of prey. Their power, intensity and sleek beauty are too hard to resist. Here are some watercolor paintings of a few species I made, the goshawk, the gyrfalcon and the peregrine falcon.
Watercolor and colored pencil
21 x 30 cm
#birdart #sciart #birdpainting #wildlifeart
Watercolor and colored pencil
21 x 30 cm
#birdart #sciart #birdpainting #wildlifeart
If you see,this post your getaway vehicle.
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
If you see,this post your getaway vehicle.
Beautiful day at @rspb.bsky.social St Aidan's. Bearded tits and two Cetti's showing well at Astley. Marsh Harrier and close views of a hunting Kestrel. #birds #yorkshirebirding
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Beautiful day at @rspb.bsky.social St Aidan's. Bearded tits and two Cetti's showing well at Astley. Marsh Harrier and close views of a hunting Kestrel. #birds #yorkshirebirding
Will someone remind me when the Ashes finishes so I can follow @levparikian.bsky.social again. Thanks.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Will someone remind me when the Ashes finishes so I can follow @levparikian.bsky.social again. Thanks.
Reskeet with a time you looked cool.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool.
I'm available for other cameo roles.(No Equity card)
www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/christm...
www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/christm...
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm available for other cameo roles.(No Equity card)
www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/christm...
www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/christm...
My timeline is full of Blue Throats , Hume's Warblers and Snow Buntings on the east coast. Time for a "Following" cull.
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My timeline is full of Blue Throats , Hume's Warblers and Snow Buntings on the east coast. Time for a "Following" cull.
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Great Northern Diver, Isle of Man
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great Northern Diver, Isle of Man
"the barbaric practice of deliberately poisoning raptors persists today, as highlighted by the bodies found in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire." #raptorpersecution
@friendsofthedales.bsky.social
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/n...
@friendsofthedales.bsky.social
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/n...
raptorforum.wordpress.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"the barbaric practice of deliberately poisoning raptors persists today, as highlighted by the bodies found in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire." #raptorpersecution
@friendsofthedales.bsky.social
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/n...
@friendsofthedales.bsky.social
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/n...
#LiveatLeeds last night was brilliant. Stand out bands were Last Train🇲🇫, Flipturn🇺🇸 and The Hubbards🇬🇧
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#LiveatLeeds last night was brilliant. Stand out bands were Last Train🇲🇫, Flipturn🇺🇸 and The Hubbards🇬🇧
Have you considered donating to Sara's Northern Challenge? Go and stand outside now in the rain and cold and imagine running in it for 5 days.
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Have you considered donating to Sara's Northern Challenge? Go and stand outside now in the rain and cold and imagine running in it for 5 days.
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
I'm the great grandson of a Peel #IsleofMan 🇮🇲 herring fisherman so naturally I loved this. Goblin Band and Spritzer Space Telescope put on a brilliant gig at The Attic in Leeds last night. #Folk
Broadside Hacks tour.
Broadside Hacks tour.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I'm the great grandson of a Peel #IsleofMan 🇮🇲 herring fisherman so naturally I loved this. Goblin Band and Spritzer Space Telescope put on a brilliant gig at The Attic in Leeds last night. #Folk
Broadside Hacks tour.
Broadside Hacks tour.
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My great-grandad was a piano tuner from Huddersfield. He was conscripted into the army during the First World War, and had an awful time. After I found out a bit about what he went through, I wrote a short story. I thought today might be a good day to share it. richarddsmyth.com/2025/11/09/n...
New short story: ‘FP Number Two’
The sky shivers with fever and there are devils on the roofs of the public houses.
richarddsmyth.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My great-grandad was a piano tuner from Huddersfield. He was conscripted into the army during the First World War, and had an awful time. After I found out a bit about what he went through, I wrote a short story. I thought today might be a good day to share it. richarddsmyth.com/2025/11/09/n...
And again tonight. Anyone else struggling with the fact that littering is illegal but several times a year, Bonfire Night, Divali etc people can chuck cardboard, plastic and wood all over our cities and countryside yet that's somehow OK.
The appetite of the people of Leeds for fireworks is both impressive and fucking irritating.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
And again tonight. Anyone else struggling with the fact that littering is illegal but several times a year, Bonfire Night, Divali etc people can chuck cardboard, plastic and wood all over our cities and countryside yet that's somehow OK.
MTB ride from home to #RSPB St Aidan's. Glossy Ibis, 12 GW Egrets 2 Water Rail & 2 Kestrels the best. Lots of Kites enroute.
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
MTB ride from home to #RSPB St Aidan's. Glossy Ibis, 12 GW Egrets 2 Water Rail & 2 Kestrels the best. Lots of Kites enroute.
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
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Good summary of what illegal raptor persecution looks like in the UK, for anyone who missed the launch of @friendsofthedales.bsky.social new campaign last month.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
‘Eyes on the Skies’ – video now available from launch of new project to raise awareness of illegal raptor persecution in Yorkshire Dales National Park
Last month a local campaign group called Friends of the Dales launched a new campaign to raise awareness of illegal raptor persecution in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (see here). This new camp…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Good summary of what illegal raptor persecution looks like in the UK, for anyone who missed the launch of @friendsofthedales.bsky.social new campaign last month.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
Ricky Martin's ignorance about 🍾.
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ricky Martin's ignorance about 🍾.
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 AM
